Political Participation and Economic Marginality: The Case of Health Care

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Political Participation and Economic Marginality: The Case of Health Care is written by Jamila Michener and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1124868674 (ISBN 10) and 9781124868677 (ISBN 13).

The overarching goal of this dissertation is to explore and explain political responses to economic marginality. I engage this broad topic vis-a-vis an issue-oriented approach, focusing on two of the most economically disadvantaged populations in the realm of healthcare: the uninsured and the Medicaid insured. The project addressees two sets of inquiries: 1) How do the populations in question participate politically and 2) under what conditions can these groups be mobilized to take political action? Employing various methodological tools (i.e. in-depth interviews, advanced statistical analyses of primary and secondary survey data and a field experiment), I identify patterns of non-participation for the groups in question and consider the processes that produce their political apathy. Moving beyond general examinations of participatory differences between social classes, I undertake more fine-grained scrutiny of behavioral dynamics within underesourced groups, paying particular attention to the distinctive ways that attitudinal, institutional and demographic configurations among the disadvantaged lead to differential political outcomes.